Congress MLA Chanda Singh Gaur Moves Supreme Court Against HC's Refusal To Dismiss Election Petition Filed By BJP MP Rahul Singh Lodhi
Live LawCongress MLA Chanda Singh Gaur has approached the Supreme Court challenging Madhya Pradesh High Court's rejection of her plea under Order 7 Rule 11 CPC to dismiss an election petition filed by BJP MP Rahul Singh Lodhi.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan, before whom the case was listed today, has posted it to January, 2025. Congress MLA Chanda Singh Gaur has approached the Supreme Court challenging Madhya Pradesh High Court's rejection of her plea under Order 7 Rule 11 CPC to dismiss an election petition filed by BJP MP Rahul Singh Lodhi. To give a brief background of the case, after the 2023 Legislative Assembly elections concluded in Madhya Pradesh on December 3, 2023, Rahul Singh Lodhi filed an election petition before the Madhya Pradesh High Court challenging the election of Chanda Singh Gaur from Constituency No.47, Kharagpur, District Tikamgarh on the ground that she had given false information/affidavit. In support of the dismissal, it was urged that though Rahul Singh Lodhi filed an affidavit alleging corrupt practice alongwith the election petition, the same was not in the prescribed format.